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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18
Detroit Free Press.

At an early hour yesterday morning a
colored man who was pacing up and down
in front of g house on Macomb street was
asked by a pedestrian if there was any
trouble on his mind.
Il should deserve dat dere was!" he
promptly replied.
''What is it?'
'Well, my woman has run away from
home an is in dat house."
''Well why don't you go in?n
''kause it's dangerous. OATS her broth
er in dar, an he's got shotgun nine feet
long. De mint l put my head in he's
gwine to blow it off. lie got boy watch
in de alley gate, an Ize gwine to keep
watch heah in de front, an de hull family
is jist penned in."
How long do you expect to remain
here?"
Until l git de ole woman"
But she may tire you out"
"Will she! White man, look heah, ]
dun come prepar'd fur buizness, 1 did"
And he led me to bag in the alley
which contained four loaves of bread, a
large piece of boiled pork and a bottle of
water, and continued:
'Ize dun fixed myself fur a siege of
three weeks. an den lie gwine to gang
on fur another widout eatin' muffin tall.
Some folks might rush in dar' an git
shot, but my policy am to wait an watch.
It's got to fotch 'em in de eand."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18
THROUGH THE BRIDGE.

When the bridge was reached the train
was running at about twenty-five or thir
ty miles an hour. The first three cars
seemed to have passed over safely but
the Others plunged through into the
roadway below being smashed into splin
ters. The shock was so sudden and
heavy that the cars in front were almost
demolished. They remained on top of
the embankment but were pulled off
their trucks and the floor of each was
forced nearly to the roof, while the seats
were jumbled together in great confusion
The end of the second coach was a mass
of splinters caused by the car ahead
grinding against it when the others went
down. The third coach was tlattened to
the ground as if it had fallen from its
trucks from Il great height, although it
remained on the edge of the embank-
ment. The roof of the fourth car also
remained on the embankment, having
evidently been showed clean from its
fastenings where the coach went through
The next four cars went down in heap,
the smoker, which was on the rear of the
train, falling in the midst of the coaches
and being actually ground into small
splinters. The occupants of the smoker
were all either killed or injured. Two
of the coaches went clear scross the
roadway landing against a stone wall
that bounded large field at the foot of
a hill.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18

A MECHANICAL expert given TO curious
Investigations estimate that the footing
of n locomotive on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, in an ordi-
nary days run, involves n waste of steam
requiring the consum ption of 280 pounds
of coal to renew. He estimates the vast
ing expenses of that particular railway
at $4,000 per year
TnE.postofIice in India is regarded as so
miraculous an agency by the more igno-
rant natives that in some of tho out of
the-way places the very letter boxes are
worshiped. In one case man posted his
letter in box aud shouted out its des-
tination, to inform the presiding spirit
whom he supposed TO be inside. Another
having humbly took off his shoes as he
approached the box, went through vari'
Gus deVotions before and after posting
his letter, and finally put some coppers
before the box as preparatory offering,
retiring in the attitude of humility.
IT ia estimated that tho wheat markets
of the United States declined about two
cents per bushel, on the average, as re-
suit of the vote to increase the duty on
wheat and flour imported by France.
That would represent Il loss of some
$1,000 600 on the quantity of wheat still
remaining over from the last crop. As
that sum is, roughly speaking, equal to
the total foreign value of the wheat sent
by tho United States to France during
the last eight months, it would seem
that tho spectators attached too much
Importance TO the fact rs they usually
do with all facts which are supposed to
have an influence on the course of the
markets.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18

Nrs E. B. Washburne is lying very i'll
at the fremont hodse. Chicago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18
REsCUING THE LIVING.

Surgical and other assistance was
promptly summoned from the city and
the villages nearest the wreck. Persons
living IN the vicinity and a few passen-
gers who escaped uninjured; Joined in the
work of releasing the living from the
debris under which they were buried and
in removing the mangled bodies of the
dead. The lattebMesa laid in a row on
the stone wall near the road, while the
wounded were placed on the car cushions
which were scattered about or on mat
tresses of which largo number were
brought by relief train from Boston.
Ambulances and hacks had been sent from
the city within half an hour after tie
disaster occurred, and as these convey
ances reached the scene they were at once
started back to the city laden with dead
bound to the city morgue, or with injured
destined for the city OF Massachusetts
general hospitals. A large number of
the in jured were also taken to residences
in the vicinity to be cared for, while
others were sent to the depots at Forest
Hill and Roslindale. Four dead bodies
were also taken to the depot at Roslin-
dale. The passengers who escaped seri-
Gus injury and were able to proceed were
taken to the junction at Forest Hill and
then forwarded to their destination in
the city proper.
NAMES OF THE DEAD.
The names of the dead so far as known
are as follows:
Lizzie Walden, aged II years, of Ded-
ham.
Myron Tilden, conductor.
Lizzie Vaudeville, of Dedham.
NJ. Laylor, policeman of station 13.
Mrs. Elliss, of West Roxbury.
Ida Adams, aged 16 years, of West
Roslindale
Ellis Burnett, aged 30 years, of Roslin-
dale.
Edward A. Morris, of Dedham.
George Metcalf, apothecary, of Bos-
ton.
Mrs. Cardinal, of Roslindale
Charles Snow, of West Roxbury.
Stephen Houghton, aged SO years of
Roslindale.
w. Webster Clapp, of West Ro1-
bury.
William E. Snow,of West Roxbury.
Mrs. Kennard of West Roxbury
Frank Nichols of Dedham
II. Humphrey of Dedham.
Miss Harkius of Dedham
Hannah Murphy of West Roxbury.
b. f. Johnson of Boston.
Alice Vanderbilt of Dedham.
Harry Gay of Roxbury.
- Stone of Ro1bury.
- Gates of Roslindale.
-Byan of Roslindale.
William S. Smith.
William E, Durham
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18
WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE
A Heavy Train or .the Boston and
Providence Road CruSheS Through
Bridge-The Cars Smashed
Into SplinterS.
Number of Persons Killed Said to be
Over Thirty, and About Forty
Seriously Injured.

The account of the worst disaster yet
recorded comes from Boston, in which a
dispatch received on Monday says: Six
crowded passenger cars on the Boston &
Providence railroad crushed through a
bridge near this city between and s
O'Clock this morning. The result was the
instant death or fatal injuring of more
than thirty persons ars the wounding of
scores of others. The cause is believed
to have been the weakness of the bridge,
which was a new iron structure. This
bridge crosses South street between For
est Hill and Rosindale on the Dedham
branch, and is approached by embank-
ments twenty feet high. 1t was known
among railroad men as "the tin bridge"
1t is about mile from Jamaica Plain.
The train to which the accident occurred
left Dedham at 7:05 a. m, and was due in
Boston thirty-fve minutes later. 1t was
made up of baggage car and eight pas
senger coaches, including smoker in
the rear, and was in charge of Conductor
Tilden. The train is one of the largest
and heaviest on the morning list. This
morning, as usual, the train was heavily
laden,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18

Eyerybody's companion Is nobody's
friend, but Red Star Cough Cure is every
body's friend. Prof. Grothe, of the
Brooklyn Board of Health, endorses it as
prompt, safe and sure. Price, twenty
1--WE cents bottle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18

TuE prescriptions which the architect
has to follow in preparing his buildings
90 resist the strains of n moderate earth
quake, says Prof. Shaler in S,ribner's
Monthly, are simple, and do not require
any great increase in the course of con-
struction. II is well to understand that
the actual movement of the ground, even
in VIOLENT shocks, is slight. In those
which we have termed of the first order
it is doubtful il the movement ever
amounts to foot in amplitude, while the
shocks which we may anticipate i'll this
country, such as have recently occurred
in Charleston, for instance, probably
swing the earth TO and fro within the
space of an inch. The destruction is done
in part by the suddeuncss of the to and
fro motion, which breaks the foundation
from the suPerstructure, but iN larger
measure by the pendulum like vibration
which is set up i'll the building. This
pendulum movement may cause an oscil
lation of one inch at the foundation to be
several feet IN sixth flour, CT say 100
feet above the ground. The ronding eff
feet of this pendulum-like swinging,
especially in weak masonry, may easily be
imagined.
Tur various groups into which the rail
roads of the country fall continue to car
ry out line of action in regard to re-
arranging their pools and traffic associa-
tions in a shape which will not conflict
with the interstate Law, and at the same
time to arrive at a common basis for the
establishment of rates and the division
OF traffic which will harmonize with the
presumsble construction of the law. II
would, however, seem, as is natural, that
there is considerable divergence of views
as to what the policy of the commission
will be. In the work of readiusting the
relations of the various roads to each
other under these new and uncertain
conditions, there Is necessarily q good
deal of friction which the habitual bel.
hgerency of many of the western lines
renders somewhat difficult of arrange
ment. The disposition to recognize the
law is still noticeable feature of the
situation, and many important lines have
followed the ePennsylvania's lead in Civ.
ing notice that special-rate agreements
will all pc ahrogated as soon as the law
becomes operative. At the same time the
law exhibits the influence even beyond
our borders, as is shown in the announce.
ment by the Canadian Pacific that all
through rates from points on its line to
points on American soil will be revised
and all special agreement regarding them
cancelled when the law goes into effect.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
Free Speech.
EDWIN G. BRowN.

Story on Constitution, volume ., page 667,
section 1850.
Congress shall make no law abridging
the freedom of speech or of press. 1t is
neither more nor less than that
every man shall be at liberty to publish
what is true, with good motives and for
justifiable ends. And - it is not
only right in itself, but it is an inestima-
BILE privilege in free government. -
No one can doubt the Importance, in a
free government, of right to canvass the
acts Of public men, and the tendency of
public measures, to censure boldly the
conduct Of rulers, and scrutinize closely
the policy and plans of the government.
This is the great security of free govern
ment. II we would preserve it, public
opinion must be enlightened; political
vigilance must be inculcated; free, but
not licentions discussion, must be encour-
aged.
"Mr. Chancellor Kent, upon a large sur
vey of the whole subject, has not scrupled
to declare that, 1T has become a constitu-
tional principle in this country, that every
citizen may freely speak, write and pub
lish his sentiments on all subjects, being
responsible for the abuse OF that right and,
that no law can rightfully be passed to re-
strain or abridge the freedom of the
press"
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
Perhaus. Porhaps,

Take courage brothers and sisters! The
'law of the land" is being enforced against
that monstrous bird of prey, the Standa
Oil Company, by the supreme court Of
Ohio. 1t is threatened with forfeiture
of its corporate charter if it persists in COL
lecting rebates of the railroads, not only
on its own oil but on oil of rival shippers.
That it has done this for some time we
all know. 1t is also said to control 100 Of
the 125 natural gas companies of Pennsyl
vania, and when it shall have gained con-
troll of the remaining twenty-five its
avowed purpose is to raise the price per
thousand and compete with coal and
Illuminating gas.
1t has recently absorbed" the sulphuric
acid production. As petroleum refners
use 100000 pounds of sulphuric acid
every month, but very few refners have
been able to resist the pressure. And the
charge is made that it defeated, by its u.s.
ual methods, bill to protect independent
producers in the use of pipelines, in the
Pennsylvania legislature last winter. The
work of clipping its wings was not begun
any too soon. Let the good work 60 on,
and the loss of some of its tail feathers
be the next result. !.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
McGLyNN AND THE KNIGHTS.
Little jobs that VIII Prevent Him 81
coming an Opponent Of Mr..
Powderly.

PHILADELPHIA, June 28.-In reference
to the dispatch that Rev. DR.. Edward
McGlynn intends to become knight of
Labor and is also regarded by many as a
probable formidable opponent to General
Master Workman Powderly, General Sec
retary Litchman of the Knights of Labor
said this afternoon: II know nothing
further than what I hear from the dis
patches published in the morning papers.
If DR.. McGlynn wishes to join the order /
am sure he will be welcome.
Gas for the statement that he an oppo-
nent to Mr.. Powderly, it is simply case
of over-wrought imagination. DR.. Nc
Glynn could not by any possible means be
delegate to the general assembly inside
of two years. He would have to first join
local assembly and be member for six
months before he could be delegate to q
districtTxsembly, and then it would re
quire eighteen months. more to qualify
him as member of the general assembly"
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02

We are engaged in a grand struggle.
The world has never known such univer-
sal and mighty efforts for the rights of
mankind, for Justice. The down-trodden
and oppressed, the ignorant, the poor and
the depraved, all who are bowing under
the heavy yoke Of a master are the objects
of our love and work, all shall yet hear
our glad tidings," and "Peace on Earth,
good will toward men" shall yet come
through the preaching Of our evangel.
1t is most glorious Cause. Shall the
methods be means 1t is the Cause of
TRUTH; shall we lie for it. 1t is the Cause
Of Justice; shall we deceire and orer-reach
for its How many of us are ready to say,
as did that young man Of whom JOHN
SwINToN told US, that we will die to for
ward the Cause, that we will not do mean
act to save it!
Comrades in this fight for Humanity,
Truth, ABSOLUTE TRUTH, Truth as of the
fixed north star, us of that law which
holds our planets in their orbits and
swings our little sun with his system
around his unknown centre, Truth and
RIoHr and JUSTICE, always and to all men,
these our Cause demands.
Comrades, there is something higher
and grander than any Cause; it is the soul
Of every Cause, Truth.
Truth, RIGHT, JUSTICE, LOVE, these all
mean the same to the wise man. Through
all ages, throughout all systems
and spheres of our universe, these have
been the heart and soul of every good
Cause, every reform. These were before
man and shall be after him. Are we true
Knights, valiant, noble souls who are will
ling to "die," but not ''to do mean act!
Otaye, from his earliest youth,
Was consecrated unto Truth,
And il the universe should die
Unless Otaye told lie,
He would defy the fate's last crash,
And let all sink in one pale ash,
Ger ere, by any means, was wrung
One drop of falsehood from his tongue"
EDWIN G. BRowN.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
Dear Enquirer.


of a job because can't keep my abomina-
BILE jaw shut about the right of every man
to get work if he is willing to toll.
In the Declaration of Independence I
read that all men are entitled to life; this
includes the right to the means of living;
the right to the opportunity Of tabor,-which
l can't get.
l can't eat the flag, nor get pair of new
shoes by tramping the streets next M on
day But wiN come i in return the Gel
ebrators will tell me how to get work,
clothes and grub. I'm afraid they can't
do that and so shall try the Music Hall
meeting of the Labor Party on Sun day
night. Yours hungrily,
FREE LUNCH.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
Bulldozcd Boodlers.

The residents Of Capitol Hill may rest
easy. Tuesday, at meeting of the alder
manic committee on streets, alleys and
bridges, it was decided to report adversely
upon the petition of the Union Pacific
railway company and Contractor Richard
son to construct railway to the Capitol
building site. The action was unanimous,
and the report will be made at meeting
of the alderman.
This practically settles the matter, as
without the consent of the board of alder
men the railway cannot be constructed.
The boodlers know who their masters are.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
Notes.


The New K. of L. Constitution-The gen.
eral executive board says it has been
adopted and will be promulgated July 10,
or thereabOuts.
That New Trial-The supreme court of
Illinois, it is rumored, will grant the seven
anarchists" new trial. Nothing def
mite yet.
The Green Flag Hauled down-Dublin,t
June %: William NJ. Murphy, nationalist
member of parliament, has commenced
proceedings against the captain of H.
M. s. Shannon for seizing his yacht in
Bantry bay last week because she carried
a green flag.
an Illegal League-London, June 2S: On
the passage of the Grimes bill the govern
ment will issue special proclamation de-
claring the national league an illegal asso-
citation, and will bring it within the range
of the secret inquiry and summary juris-
diction sections of the act.
Rioters acknowledgements N. Y, June
2S: Thirteen striking "rioters" are now
under arrest and others will soon be jailed.
They are all Bohemians and Italians. The
strike is confined wholly to laborers of
those nationalities. All is quiet to-day.
Big Strike Observation-Disclosures,
June 20: The striking oil men made
move yesterday which, if successful, may
result in general strike of all the en-
ployes of the Standard oil company
throughout the country. Over 10000 men
would thus be affected. The strikers held
a meeting yesterday which passed resolu-
tions calling the manufacturers COM
mittee of the Standard oil company to in
vestigate their grievances, and in case of
their refusal appealing to all the employees
of the Standard oil company to come to
their aid.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
2 $50
Two Of . Kind.
Editor Labor ENQUIRER.
There are two kinds of foreigners that
we don't want

One parades Capitol Hill and the other
takes care of the sslums." Both are "wage-
workers" but wage-workers who have be-
come contemplate by selling their man
hood to aristoeracy and becoming paid
lackeys aud slave drivers, Socialism win
abolish both the slums Of poverty and the
palaces of theft and king craft; it wiz
abolish their parasites as we'll and set thsm
to honest work. 1t will put into practice
the true democracy spoken Of in the
Declaration of Independence.
Let every American rally then, at once,
beneath its standard! PLxB,
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
A ylclorY.

Lyman ID. willicut, master mason of
Dedhsm, Mass, was compelled to dis
charge all OF his non-union men and take
on union men. His contracts were so nu-
merous that he could not employ non
union men enough to I'LL them, and union
men would not work unless the scabs
were "ischsrged.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
In the Far Northwest, and
Who Is Responsible for
the Crime7
PLAIN WORDS or COMRADES
The Tacoma Branch Of the 'sInterna.
tionap Speaks Out on Some Of
tho Results Of Greed.
TAooxA, W. T., May 10, 1887.

TACOMA, w. T., May 10, 1887.
A cruel murder has been committed.
Who is responsibles A fellow-being In
seeking employment, by drinking intox-
icating liquors, that delusive mockery,
that social cancer that destroys the
intellect, absorbs the wealth, divorces
the family ties, and is the fountain head
of oceans of tears, the well-spring Of mis-
cry, poverty and degradation.
An honest, hsrd-working laborer,
stranger in our city, finds our score and
ten gilded palaces to welcome him, inhab-
tied by smiling attendants, who appear SO
solicitous for his welfare.
The blear-eyed, blosted victim in his
drunken stupor, arrests his attention but
for a moment, and offers no warning
to stay those fatal steps. Why should he,
so young, 80 full of the desire to be
congenial, fear the result Of few hours
amusement The die was cast. In the
exuberance Of a generous heart, in the
kindly feelings of fellowship, he rushed
to his destruction.
Crushed, mangled, his corpse cries for
vengeance; against whom? Against the
men who robbed him of his reason, who
in exchange for his hard-earned dollars
gave him poisonous fluid that fred his
brain with demOniac insanity. Look al
your hands, you find not only the stain Of
his blood, but also that of thousands oi
other victims Of your infamous traffic. :
But, say you: 1t matters not though So
ciety perish: though human intelligence
and Christian civilization sink in this
valley of horrors! The Almighty Dollar ii
your master, and though it leads yor
through sea of blood, you will still re
main its slave. We envy you not YOU
blood money.
Are they alone responsible for this
cruel murder? Is not society at large re
sponsible, which by public opinion form
the laws of our countrys Are not ou
lawmakers responsible! Is not every
minister of the gospel responsible, wht
does not lift up his voice in no uncertain
tone against this legalized infamy? Ant
is not every person responsible, who has
intelligence enough to discern the evil
but remains silent!
Then awake from this lethargy and dt
not let this blot upon Tacoma's fair his
tory be again repeated!
Remember, though only workingman
mothers hand once caressed him; {
mothers heart, loving and appreciative
once beat in hope and joyful anticipation
for the welfare of her generous-h eartet
boy; perhaps sisters love may have fol
lowed him to the grave.
Let Us draw the veil, and drop tear Of
repentance, in the name of society for it,
sins and follies, that now masquerade in
the name of the Law.
Published by order of the
INTERNATIONAL WORKINoMEN's AssooIATIor
of Tacoma, Washington Territory.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-02
AMERICA.

My country! it's of thee.
Sweet land Of liberty,
OF thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land Of the pilgrims pride;
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.
My native country! thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name l love;
l love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills;
Ny heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Our Fathers Cop! to thee,
Author Of Liberty!
To thee We sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedoms holy light;
Protect rs by thy might,
Great COP! our King.